A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

A monument at the site of a decisive battle in the First English Civil War.

"The Donut" was built as part of an expensive, ill-fated engineering endeavor.

A well preserved remnant of the English Civil War.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.

The former Field Marshall and Minister of War to the Russian Imperial Army.

Horsemen once used this tilting post during jousting practice.

This park is home to a collection of important industrial and religious sites.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

An abandoned quarrying village turned commune is now a hub for learning the Welsh language.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

Eerily lifelike effigies stare at everyone who enters this sanctuary.